I pity this girl…
My friend Vicky just started persecuting her through the internet.
I don’t think this girl meant any harm, but because of what she commented on my friend’s site, she is now the target of nasty messages from people she doesn’t even know. The root of all this persecution -- her message: “Bakla po ba kayo?” Vicky, infuriated by her comment answered her post. It wasn’t just my friend who answered, most of her contacts replied. A few days after the “word war”, a new page purporting to be that of Vicky’s appeared. Since most of us would jump into conclusions at the slightest glimpse of probability, Vicky concluded that this girl made the said site. Actually, we don’t have proof that she made that account…but nevertheless…hell hath no fury like a woman called gay, Vicky posted this girl’s picture and her contact details (also found through the internet) so that people would know who to target.
I pity this girl, because as it stands, the freedom found in the internet seems to be a good arena to persecute people sans “due process”.
I suppose in the internet, it’s possible to take the law into our own hands.
3 comments:
i would agree that freedom in the internet is a good arena to persecute people.
there is no physical confrontation and when all else fails, there is the possibility of just deleting and undoing. shut down the computer if you want. hugutin mo pa ang plug. :)
the internet, however, can also be a difficult place to retaliate. precisely because of the same thing.
i tihnk your friend vicky just fought fire with fire. i do not condone it, but somehow i understand it.
oh, and i've been called gay, too. :) he he he.
^ hehe...well you still have the last laugh...Bb Pilipinas-Universe =P (kinabog mo sila!)
i feel sorry for that girl...last i heard she deleted all her sites because of that incident
When you wrote this article, I was reminded of another victim of 'e-persecution', as you call it. She goes by the name of Alodia Gosengfiao, you can look her up via Google -- she's that popular. You would think that a pretty girl like her would receive much adulation from fans, but it's not entirely a bed of roses for Ms. Gosengfiao. Just as her popularity increased through the internet, the same medium is used by people who hate her to illogical extremes to increase her 'infamy' by resorting to libel and all sorts of ad hominem attacks. The war of words that goes on gets very nasty, and I can’t help but notice that such words would never have been uttered in real life, but because of the anonymity that internet use allows us, they do get uttered quite prolifically. This leads me to believe that in cyberspace, fame and infamy might be two sides of the same coin. With the good, comes the bad. I guess that’s just how the world goes. What we do about it is a whole different story.
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